Kurt Bills on Social Security

Increment retirement age; rely on other streams of income

Q: Your views on Social Security?

BILLS: It's moving up rapidly toward insolvency, so how do you keep this program around? You have to be able to secure it for the people who are there.
We do have to look at that retirement age and adjusting that by a small increments starting in, I think the platform [in the
Rand Paul budget proposal] starts in 2014, just three-month increments. We shouldn't have people relying on
Social Security as their only stream of income, but we need to make sure it's there for the people who are paying into it. Adjusting for retirement and also means testing, as I mentioned before, is a big part of that.

Reform Social Security system or benefits won't be available

Given the current state of this government program, Social Security benefits will not be available to the young adults that are paying into it. Taxing generations of Americans under the illusion that this money is being invested and will offer a
return someday is morally wrong. We can make Social Security sustainable. Congress refuses to act because of the political virtues of the reelection cycle. I am ready to make difficult decisions and reform the system.